Mock: Cover Progression. Xenomorph.

At first, I wanted to have a kind of sketchy mast head, but after experimenting with type, I realised that it made the magazine look really informal and low end. To change this, I altered the type into a classy Serif type.

This is the mast head after I had altered it.
I really like how classy it looks, as it's contrasts from the sketchy feel of the cover art.

To hook in the readers, above the mast head I advertised what 'free' content would be in the magazine, and exclusive content to make the readers feel drawn and special to my magazine.

I also proceeded to add text to the cover to break up the picture and display what contents was in my magazine. To avoid having large chunks of text, I alternated between bold and standard text.
To keep up with the high end theme of the magazine cover, I used another concording serif type.

After seeing all the text together, my magazine looked incredibly monotonous, and through which made it look boring. To detract from that, I added colour to key titles and places where I want the reader's eyes to be drawn.
Having the text in several places and alignments however caused confusion to where to look first, and rendered the white space to poor use. To change this, I altered where the text aligned, and transformed the cover art to be larger so the focus was on the mouth.
I had also noticed that the picture looked dull and boring, so to alter this I edited it in Photoshop with the burn tool to make the highlights really stand out.

This is my final design and I am very happy with the outcome.
Having all of the information on a right alignment created a balance with the head of the alien on the left. It looks almost as though it is looking round the text to the reader which is a really cool effect.
I also really like the use of orange as it adds life to the cover, and makes repetition on the cover, tying everything together.